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66 shares Illustrative: Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Omer Yankelevich, Israel’s first-ever female ultra-Orthodox minister, announced Tuesday that she was leaving Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party and would not run in the upcoming March 23 Knesset elections. Yankelevich, the Diaspora affairs minister, had been considered one of the closest allies of party leader Gantz. But she has recently been at the center of increasing tensions within the centrist party, and ended up joining an avalanche of members departing the crumbling party, which won 14 seats in last year’s election (in an alliance with Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and Moshe Ya’alon’s Telem, which won a total of 33) but is now teetering on the edge of extinction, according to recent opinion polls.

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